Roads To Close For Italian Festival
This is a release from the City of Ottawa:
Eleven days of fun and celebration of Italian culture returns as the Italian Festival takes over Little Italy between Friday, June 9 and Sunday, June 11. The festival highlights music, dance, and cuisine from all over Italy, and Preston Street will be a hub for a host of activities like street parties, car parades and the Feast of St. Anthony Procession. During the festival’s opening weekend, there are several road impacts:
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Friday, June 9
- Preston Street, from Carling Avenue to Somerset Street: 4 pm to 1 am for a street party.
- Carling Avenue, from Preston Street to Sherwood Avenue, will be reduced to two lanes in each direction on Friday, June 9 from 12 am to 7 pm to prepare for the Ferrari Demonstration Zone
- Carling Avenue, from Preston Street to Sherwood Avenue, will be closed on Friday, June 9 from 7 pm to Saturday, June 10 at 6 pm to facilitate the Ferrari Demonstration Zone
Saturday, June 10
The following road closures will take place for the car parade and street party:
- Norman Street, from Preston to Rochester streets: 9 am to 3 pm
- Preston Street, from Pamilla to Somerset streets: 12 to 3 pm
- Rochester Street, from Norman to Pamilla streets: 12 to 3 pm
- Pamilla Street, from Preston to Rochester streets: 12 to 3 pm
- Preston Street, from Carling Avenue to Somerset Street: 3:30 pm to 1 am
Sunday, June 11
- Parts of Preston, Booth, Norman, Willow, and Rochester streets will be closed between 9 am and 1 pm for the Feast of St. Anthony Procession.
- Preston Street, from Carling Avenue to Somerset Street, will be closed from 1 pm to 9 pm for a street party.
Additional parking restrictions will be in effect in the areas mentioned above. Please refer to on-street signage.
For a full list of Italian Festival events and activities, visit italianweekottawa.ca.
OC Transpo Services
Due to these road closures, detours will be in effect for Line 2 bus service and routes 14, 55 and 85. For more details about the detours, please visit the Alerts page on octranspo.com. You can also connect with OC Transpo through Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
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“Eleven days of fun and celebration of Italian culture returns as the Italian Festival takes over Little Italy between Friday, June 9 and Sunday, June 11. ”
So now City Hall not only functions in an alternate universe from the rest of us (which, by the way, I’ve suspected for some time!), now they have an alternate counting system and/or calendar. It seems Scotty has already beamed some of them up … and not in a good way.
When I went to school, there was only one day “between” June 9th and the 11th. It was June 10th. If they forgot to mention that they meant “June 9th to 11th inclusive”, that still only gives me three days, not eleven. If they were celebrating eleven days of fun, they might do as the Italian community does where I live. Here they have an Italian Week that lasts from the flag-raising on the 8th to its closing on the 18th. Coincidentally, that’s eleven days!
I am relatively confident that Preston Street will also be closed on the 18th when the bike races take place. It’s hard to race a bike while dodging cars and buses although any bike courier will tell you it can be done.
Would this kind of mistake be made in a McKenney or a Chiarelli City Hall? I would suggest not. One of them lives around the corner from Preston Street and represented Somerset Ward which includes Preston Street and Little Italy. The other grew up in the neighbourhood and is a prominent member of Ottawa’s Italian community. Both of them can count and read a calendar.
The Voter:
We need an Italian Festival Mayor!!!